TABLE OF CONTENTS This section focuses on the day-to-day administration of your ESX server using the out-of-the-box administrative tools. Previous chapters of this book showed how to install ESX Server, create new VMs, and configure networking using the Management Interface. This chapter focuses on maintaining an existing ESX Server installation by modifying permissions on a virtual machine, integrating ESX Server with Active Directory, and monitoring performance. The specific tools we ll be using are the MUI and Service Console. Even if you have VirtualCenter deployed in your environment, some tasks can be accomplished just as easily with the MUI, Service Console, or Remote Console. You ll also find that certain tasks can be performed only from the MUI or Service Console. Examples include:
Setting advanced options like masking LUNs
Creating and formatting new VMFS volumes
Creating and activating SWAP files
Viewing system logs files
Modifying the system startup profile
The ESX Server security model is much different from the VirtualCenter Security model. For one, security is not inherited, so it must be explicitly defined. Also, the permissions are applied differently. On ESX Server a directory/file has an owner (User), an affiliated group, and Others (everyone else). An example of the permissions is shown in Figure 9.142. In this example the user who owns the file is root, and the affiliated group is root. The user has read, write, and execute permissions, and the group and others have...
